Windows 8 Tips # 1 – Window Charms

     A menu bar of commonly used system commands, called “charms”, can be accessed from the right side of your screen. These charms include a handy shortcut back to the Start Screen as well as Search, Share, Devices and Settings. You can access the Charms menu in the following ways:

     Touch – Swipe inwards from the right edge of the screen.

     Key/Mouse – Move the mouse pointer to the upper or lower right corners of the screen, then move the mouse along the right-hand edge of the screen towards the charms as they appear.  

     Note: Many of the keyboard shortcuts used in Windows 8 involve a special key on your keyboard called the Windows Logo Key. On an existing keyboard it should look like this ( W Button )  or on a new keyboard like this ( W Button )  and is located in the bottom left-hand corner between the Ctrl and Alt keys. Throughout this guide I will use the new Windows 8 logo ( W Button )  to refer to this key. For example, the Charms menu can also be accessed via a keyboard shortcut, by pressing the Windows Logo Key and the letter “C” key at the same time. This shortcut can be showed as: (W Button) + C  

W Button